After zypper dup TW not booting. Blinking cursor black screen of death

No, not yet. I’m a tech noob so the instructions

didn’t make any sense to me. I tried googling “Linux. darknes” but nothing helpful appeared. What is “darknes”? How do I boot into it? Is “darknes” somewhere in the GRUB menu?

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Have a look at the instructions in No longer able to reach gnome login screen after latest update - #17 by sebix (the thread was linked above)

What is “black screen of death” in the title of this thread?

I think, we mean both the same…

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@invalid_user_name

collegue fixed the system after the dup. So no subsequent new release/dup yet.

Oh, you mean “darkness”. The incorrect spelling threw me off.

I have a similar issue, no blinking cursor though. dup updated me to kernel 6.16.9 which had the issue, booting into the previous kernel 6.16.8 fixed it for me.

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Solution: Keep an eye on 1250513 – [Build 20250924] Upgrades from 15.x seem to get the config for gdm / dynamic user generation wrong , wait for it to get RESOLVED then run sudo zypper dup.